Dr. Kate Stone
Lecture Date: 04. MAY, 2023
Dr. Kate Stone is a psycholinguist in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her research interests are in probabilistic sentence processing and how uncertainty and conflict affect readers’ linguistic expectations. She uses EEG and computational modelling to examine how these expectations unfold over time.
Title and Abstract
Title: Eyetracking in Psycholinguistics
Tracking language users’ eyes as they read or listen provides us with valuable insights into language cognition. By analysing how the eyes move as new input is received, we can make inferences about changes in cognitive processing. A common question in language cognition research is about the timing of these changes: for example, are non-native listeners slower to comprehend particular types of sentences than native speakers? If so, why? In this talk I will discuss how reading eye tracking and the visual world paradigm can be used for analysing the timecourse of language processing. I will introduce our own method for quantifying and comparing the onsets of experimental effects in visual world data, and show how the method allowed us to answer a question about why non-native speakers might be slower to process particular types of syntactic cues. Overall, the talk should give a broad overview of the issue of timecourse analysis in eye tracking, as well as introduce a specific timecourse analysis method with links to example code and data.
Dr. Yves Scherrer
Lecture Date: 25. MAY, 2023
Dr. Yves Scherrer a university lecturer in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki, where he arrived in March 2017 as a post-doctoral researcher. Prior to that, he spent several years at the University of Geneva.
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Dr. Laura Rosseel
Lecture Date: 29. JUNE, 202
Dr. Laura Rosseel’s research interests mainly lie in the fields of sociolinguistics, language variation and change, and experimental linguistics. Her PhD research focused on innovating the measurement of the social meaning of language variation. More specifically, she studied on a number of implicit attitude measures recently developed in social psychology and investigated whether it is possible to adapt these new attitude measures and use them to study language attitudes. Laura’s dissertation comprised three studies in which the Personalized Implicit Association Test (P-IAT) and the Relational Responding Task (RRT) are used to measure attitudes towards five varieties of Dutch: Standard Belgian Dutch and four regional varieties of Colloquial Belgian Dutch.
Title and Abstract
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